Madam Speaker, I thank Representative Omar for bringing us together this afternoon and for her steadfast leadership on the issue of hunger and food insecurity, an issue that she has been leading on since she was in the Minnesota State…

Only in America do we consider arming teachers while failing to pay them a livable wage.

It is long past time to treat gun violence as the public health crisis that it is.

Every single life wrought by gun violence matters.

We need resources, not revolvers, in our schools.

If someone shot and killed your child, you would not be sitting here wanting to hear about my constitutional right to own a gun.

The creation of a digital dollar is certainly a hefty responsibility.

Now, it is time for Congress to fix it.

I hope Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley's historic legislation to transform our nation's broken clemency system continues.

This should ring alarm bells for every lawmaker because it impacts mass incarceration in each and every one of our districts, and it should stoke the moral outrage of everyone who calls this nation home, as this is a shameful legacy.

I applaud President Biden for granting 78 commutations and pardons last month.